Human Cloning is it just around the corner??

[T]

This is from NineMSN:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/805090/rogue-doctor-threatens-human-clones

Brings up many questions....

Should we be cloning humans?
Should we be creating hybrids??
Where do we draw the line?

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I'm all for cloning.

Can you imagine the sheer entertainment value of watching 11 Muscats play against 11 Jedinaks?

 

[Marquee]

Lol

Make that 11 Muscat's Vs 11 Tiatto's

 

[T]

Wouldn't work, they would be trying so hard to hack each other that the ball would be totally forgotten. Kinda missed the point of the post though.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

It's a football forum, so I'm relating the news back to football. 
It's totally the point.

 

[serious14]

Anyone who tries to stop medical and/or scientific advances that will one day prove to be 200% beneficial to the human race on religious or shaky moral grounds is quite frankly, an idiot.  What we will gain from these experiments is nothing short of an actual biological miracle.

At the same time, anyone who also thinks that a high majority of current medical procedures, medications and what have you, came about at the very first true and without a significant period of experimentation in both a lab and on live humans is nothing short of naive.

 

[T]

So you would say that cloning a complete human is a good thing??
Not talking just genetic engineering, which in many cases is a good thing, but creating a whole person.... You could essentially make yourself immortal.

 

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

So you would say that cloning a complete human is a good thing??
Not talking just genetic engineering, which in many cases is a good thing, but creating a whole person.... You could essentially make yourself immortal.

You wouldn't be immortal because a biological clone doesn't share the same developed conciousness of a adult human from whom they are cloned.

The cloned person would be biologically identical. The exact same DNA. Just like in the case of identical twins.

It is only immortality in the same sense that normal reproduction is immortality. One's genes are passed on into the next generation. Granted it is a whole and perfect copy of your genes, but the experiences a person would have would shape them into an entirely different person.

Human cloning, in my opinion, is a good thing. It is a development of our understanding of the world and our ability to affect it. That can't be judged as bad.

It would be the instances of use that would be judged to be good or bad.

 

[Bear]

can anybody say.........

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I can say that:

"No hotlinking please. MoviePosterDB.com"

See?  Easy

Anyway, I don't want to see completely cloning, no. 

 

[Jesus]

I cant see cloning being much more than beneficial to the rich for some time to come.

 

[Jimmy]

So you would say that cloning a complete human is a good thing??
Not talking just genetic engineering, which in many cases is a good thing, but creating a whole person.... You could essentially make yourself immortal.

You wouldn't be immortal because a biological clone doesn't share the same developed conciousness of a adult human from whom they are cloned.

The cloned person would be biologically identical. The exact same DNA. Just like in the case of identical twins.

It is only immortality in the same sense that normal reproduction is immortality. One's genes are passed on into the next generation. Granted it is a whole and perfect copy of your genes, but the experiences a person would have would shape them into an entirely different person.

Human cloning, in my opinion, is a good thing. It is a development of our understanding of the world and our ability to affect it. That can't be judged as bad.

It would be the instances of use that would be judged to be good or bad.

They seem to think that in about 20 or so years time, they will be able to turn off the aging code in our DNA, making us basically immortal.

 

[clarence]

I'm not a great fan of cloning. I'd like to think I'm rather unique, and the possibility of a clone of me wandering around is kinda irky.

Imagine a whole Bay 16 of Bearinators, Auburns, Dibos and Part_Timers? Rather daunting crowd support.

 

[Kareem]

I'm not a great fan of cloning. I'd like to think I'm rather unique, and the possibility of a clone of me wandering around is kinda irky.

Imagine a whole Bay 16 of Bearinators, Auburns, Dibos and Part_Timers? Rather daunting crowd support.

well at least roof wouldnt be a problem!

 

[Jesus]

So you would say that cloning a complete human is a good thing??
Not talking just genetic engineering, which in many cases is a good thing, but creating a whole person.... You could essentially make yourself immortal.

You wouldn't be immortal because a biological clone doesn't share the same developed conciousness of a adult human from whom they are cloned.

The cloned person would be biologically identical. The exact same DNA. Just like in the case of identical twins.

It is only immortality in the same sense that normal reproduction is immortality. One's genes are passed on into the next generation. Granted it is a whole and perfect copy of your genes, but the experiences a person would have would shape them into an entirely different person.

Human cloning, in my opinion, is a good thing. It is a development of our understanding of the world and our ability to affect it. That can't be judged as bad.

It would be the instances of use that would be judged to be good or bad.

They seem to think that in about 20 or so years time, they will be able to turn off the aging code in our DNA, making us basically immortal.

For whom they turn it off.

 

[Jimmy]

So you would say that cloning a complete human is a good thing??
Not talking just genetic engineering, which in many cases is a good thing, but creating a whole person.... You could essentially make yourself immortal.

You wouldn't be immortal because a biological clone doesn't share the same developed conciousness of a adult human from whom they are cloned.

The cloned person would be biologically identical. The exact same DNA. Just like in the case of identical twins.

It is only immortality in the same sense that normal reproduction is immortality. One's genes are passed on into the next generation. Granted it is a whole and perfect copy of your genes, but the experiences a person would have would shape them into an entirely different person.

Human cloning, in my opinion, is a good thing. It is a development of our understanding of the world and our ability to affect it. That can't be judged as bad.

It would be the instances of use that would be judged to be good or bad.

They seem to think that in about 20 or so years time, they will be able to turn off the aging code in our DNA, making us basically immortal.

For whom they turn it off.

The botox industry would die.

 

[clarence]

The botox industry would die.

Is that such a bad thing?  ???

 

[Jimmy]

The botox industry would die.

Is that such a bad thing?   ???

no, just stating it.

 

[midfielder]

I'm all for cloning.

Can you imagine the sheer entertainment value of watching 11 Musc**ts play against 11 Jedinaks?

11 Arnolds / 11 Kossie's / 11 Con's .....

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

What about the sheer hilarity of 11 Gaffers yelling at each other?